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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovie_Simone

Lovie Simone Oppong (born November 29, 1998)^[1][2] is an American actress, best known for her role as Zora Greenleaf in drama series Greenleaf (2016–2020), and Keisha Clark in the critically acclaimed Netflix teen drama series Forever (2025).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ewing_Jr.

John Ewing Jr. (born April 18, 1961)^[1] is an American politician, minister, former police officer, and the mayor-elect of Omaha, Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected in 2025, defeating incumbent mayor Jean Stothert. Previously, Ewing served as Omaha deputy police chief and had been the treasurer of Douglas County, Nebraska since January 2007.^[2] Ewing is the first African American to be elected mayor of Omaha.^[3][4]

Butcher Brown’s limitless musical range shows no boundaries by genre and time. The Virginia-bred collective announces their new album Letters From The Atlantic will release on March 28 via Concord Jazz, offering a seamless blend of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, soul, bossa nova and more. The new record moves toward an indie groove, featuring female guest artists Yaya Bey, Melanie Charles, Leanor Wolf, Mia Gladstone, Victoria Victoria, along with Nicholas Payton & Neal Francis. Today, Butcher Brown shares the new single and video “Ibiza,” which follows last month’s “Montrose Forest.” Tapping into deep house music influences, “Ibiza” is a ubiquitous earworm that weaves a slick saxophone line through instrumental songscapes.

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234195743/tiny-desk-concert-butcher-brown

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/11/nx-s1-5381156/trump-federal-workers-labor-union-collective-bargaining

Lee is president of NTEU Chapter 282, the union representing close to 9,000 FDA employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Ramaphosa

Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa (born 17 November 1952) is a South African businessman and politician serving as the 5th and current President of South Africa since 2018. A former anti-apartheid activist and trade union leader, Ramaphosa is also the president (leader) of the African National Congress (ANC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampha

Sampha Lahai Sisay (born 16 November 1988) is a British singer, songwriter, musician and record producer from Morden, South London.^[1] Sampha has collaborated with Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, SBTRKT, Jessie Ware, Alicia Keys, Gorillaz, Travis Scott, Kanye West, Solange and others.^[2] Sampha has released two solo EPs: Sundanza (2010)^[3] and Dual (2013).^[4] Sampha’s debut album, Process, was released on 3 February 2017 by Young^[5] and won the 2017 Mercury Prize.^[6] His second album, Lahai, was released on 20 October 2023.^[7]

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/29/1215356077/sampha-tiny-desk-concert

Sampha Lahai Sisay’s music is known for its sheer vulnerability in tackling the human experience. On his debut album, Process, we met a son mourning the loss of his parents while navigating the relationship with his partner and future mother of his first child. On a transcendental follow-up, LAHAI, we now meet Sampha as a father and a companion, asking us to revel in the magic of our existence.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/10/nx-s1-5394509/college-grad-sc-state-orangeburg-massacre

Linwood Riddick went to Vietnam to serve in the military, at an age when many people choose to go to college. Instead, he pursued his college diploma when many are busy enjoying retirement.

On Friday, Riddick graduated from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C., two days before his 80th birthday, the school said in a news release. He came out of retirement to get his college education.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/04/29/g-s1-63165/trump-100-days-hiv-positive-truck-drivers-sex-workers

On a morning in early April, Geoffrey Chanda’s phone was going off almost constantly. Truck drivers were calling him.

“They are crying: ‘We’ve got no [HIV] medicine. Where do you get [it] from?’ ” says Chanda, 54.

For 15 years, Chanda has been meeting truckers in dusty parking lots at the border of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to give them their HIV medications. Now, he says, he doesn’t know what to tell them.

He’s lost his job as a community health worker. The U.S.-funded program he worked for — which supported the mobile clinic where he collected the medications for distribution — shut down.

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2021/05/25/rhoda-ray-jones-gets-marker-springfields-hazelwood-cemetery-civil-rights-nathaniel-lyon-missouri/5187772001

More than a century after her death, an emancipated Black woman finally received a headstone.

Rhoda Ray Jones was buried in an unmarked grave at Hazelwood Cemetery. Nearly 100 people visited the cemetery Sunday not just to see the unveiling of the marker for her, but to also recognize Rhoda Ray Jones for her help during the battle at Wilson’s Creek.